Mobile capture, professional container
Phone photographers use HEIC because storage is finite. Studios use TIFF because catalogs, print, and retouch expect it. This spoke is only that Apple-to-desk story: Camera Roll, iPad review libraries, dual-camera client work where the “A camera” was an iPhone. Do not change Camera to Most Compatible just to please a Windows box. Convert the selects. Keep High Efficiency for everything you are not handing off. Local decode means sensitive location scouting never becomes a cloud album on our side. If you shot in Photographic Styles or used a third-party camera app that still writes HEIC/HEIF, the same path applies — we care about the container, not the app icon. Live Photos remain a still plus a movie. This tool writes the still as TIFF. Do not expect the motion clip inside the raster. For a whole dump, use the batch spoke on a laptop; TIFF of a wedding on a phone will heat the device and fill disk. Hub is the general tool. Adobe ingest detail is the Photoshop spoke. Archival theory is the lossless spoke. Web delivery is WebP, not this page.